David H Jacobs
Biographic Data
| ID | 5454638 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David H Jacobs |
| GIVEN NAMES | David H |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobs |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBS D H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pyrysys Psychology Group, La Jolla, CA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reclaiming ontology for decoloniality
Mental Disorder or “Normal Life Variation”? Why It Matters
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition ( DSM-5) promises a refined definition of mental disorder, which is tantamount to acknowledging that prior DSM definitions have failed to clarify what mental disorder is and why a person should be considered mentally disordered. Since the DSM promotes the position that what is actually the matter, as in medicine generally, is an impersonal, anonymous affliction, the universe of …
Is there really mental disorder
Proponents of the reality of mental disorder claim that mental disorder is ontologically real in the same sense that the variola virus and smallpox are ontologically real. The chief architect of the DSM-III revolution, Robert Spitzer (Zimmerman & Spitzer, 2005), candidly admits that a diagnosis of primary mental disorder present must be arbitrary because the distress or social impairment under consideration could well be a normal-range reaction t…
Does “Psychological Dysfunction” Mean Anything? A Critical Essay on Pathology Versus Agency
Any effort to discuss or study psychopathology (by any name) must decide how to distinguish between psychopathology and narratively comprehensible reactions to adverse circumstances of life. A pathology framework, which views the distressed individual as acted on by impersonal forces, is incompatible with an agential framework, which views the individual as the protagonist in a unique story. Although the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Menta…
A Model Consent Form for Psychiatric Drug Treatment
Given the notorious lack of informed consent in the practice of psychiatry and a tendency to use typical consent forms to protect professionals rather than inform or empower patients, the authors propose a “model consent form” for psychiatric drug treatment. This form seeks to highlight the dubious nature of medical knowledge about psychological problems diagnosed and treated, to describe regulatory processes that result in truncated knowledge ab…
Clinical Theory and Scientism
The standard Truax-Carkhuff method of assessing therapist empathy has long been criticized as lacking construct validity. However, the criticisms have been made from within the same positivist philosophy of science that is itself responsible for the conventional assessment method. In consequence, such criticisms fail even to identify the real problems involved in assessing therapist empathy, and are likewise unable to offer positive suggestions t…
Does “Psychological Dysfunction” Mean Anything? A Critical Essay on Pathology Versus Agency
Any effort to discuss or study psychopathology (by any name) must decide how to distinguish between psychopathology and narratively comprehensible reactions to adverse circumstances of life. A pathology framework, which views the distressed individual as acted on by impersonal forces, is incompatible with an agential framework, which views the individual as the protagonist in a unique story. Although the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Menta…
A Model Consent Form for Psychiatric Drug Treatment
Given the notorious lack of informed consent in the practice of psychiatry and a tendency to use typical consent forms to protect professionals rather than inform or empower patients, the authors propose a “model consent form” for psychiatric drug treatment. This form seeks to highlight the dubious nature of medical knowledge about psychological problems diagnosed and treated, to describe regulatory processes that result in truncated knowledge ab…
Clinical Theory and Scientism
The standard Truax-Carkhuff method of assessing therapist empathy has long been criticized as lacking construct validity. However, the criticisms have been made from within the same positivist philosophy of science that is itself responsible for the conventional assessment method. In consequence, such criticisms fail even to identify the real problems involved in assessing therapist empathy, and are likewise unable to offer positive suggestions t…
Clinical Theory and Scientism
The standard Truax-Carkhuff method of assessing therapist empathy has long been criticized as lacking construct validity. However, the criticisms have been made from within the same positivist philosophy of science that is itself responsible for the conventional assessment method. In consequence, such criticisms fail even to identify the real problems involved in assessing therapist empathy, and are likewise unable to offer positive suggestions t…
A Model Consent Form for Psychiatric Drug Treatment
Given the notorious lack of informed consent in the practice of psychiatry and a tendency to use typical consent forms to protect professionals rather than inform or empower patients, the authors propose a “model consent form” for psychiatric drug treatment. This form seeks to highlight the dubious nature of medical knowledge about psychological problems diagnosed and treated, to describe regulatory processes that result in truncated knowledge ab…
Does “Psychological Dysfunction” Mean Anything? A Critical Essay on Pathology Versus Agency
Any effort to discuss or study psychopathology (by any name) must decide how to distinguish between psychopathology and narratively comprehensible reactions to adverse circumstances of life. A pathology framework, which views the distressed individual as acted on by impersonal forces, is incompatible with an agential framework, which views the individual as the protagonist in a unique story. Although the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Menta…
Is there really mental disorder
Proponents of the reality of mental disorder claim that mental disorder is ontologically real in the same sense that the variola virus and smallpox are ontologically real. The chief architect of the DSM-III revolution, Robert Spitzer (Zimmerman & Spitzer, 2005), candidly admits that a diagnosis of primary mental disorder present must be arbitrary because the distress or social impairment under consideration could well be a normal-range reaction t…
Mental Disorder or “Normal Life Variation”? Why It Matters
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition ( DSM-5) promises a refined definition of mental disorder, which is tantamount to acknowledging that prior DSM definitions have failed to clarify what mental disorder is and why a person should be considered mentally disordered. Since the DSM promotes the position that what is actually the matter, as in medicine generally, is an impersonal, anonymous affliction, the universe of …
Reclaiming ontology for decoloniality
Psychology (5 works) · Psychotherapist (5 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (3 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (3 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works)